KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Muslims have voiced their support for Google barring an anti-Islam “film” clip in the country that had sparked massive protests across the Islamic world last week, telling Bikyamasr.com it was the right thing to do. “This is the correct course of action, but they should ban the film across all of YouTube,” said Sheikh Mahammad Yussif in Kuala Lumpur. “The clip is hate speech and violates the company's policies, so I don't understand why it remains available in most countries.” Google, the parent company of YouTube, said it has begun limiting access of the clip after angry anti-American protests saw violence in the Middle East last week. It came after the country's Internet regulator asked the company to remove the content. The film, titled “Innocence of Muslism,” portrays Islam's Prophet Mohamed as a child sexual abuser, violent and potentially homosexual. The film is insulting to Muslims. A spokesman for YouTube, said on Monday that it began restricting access to clips of the privately-produced film Sunday, in line with its community guidelines. “When videos breach those rules, we remove them. Where we have launched YouTube locally and we are notified that a video is illegal in that country, we will restrict access to it after a thorough review,” he said. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) was reported to have asked Google Saturday to remove clips of the controversial film, believed to have been produced by a small group of extremist Christians in the United States, from YouTube. “The clip needs to be removed completely from all users because it is unnecessarily there and creates tension,” added the sheikh.
